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字典
Mandarin · pinyin zì diǎn
Meanings
- Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典 cí diǎn, which has entries for words of one or more characters)
- (coll.) dictionary
- Classifier: 本 běn
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4–3 · zi4 dian3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
zi6 din2
Cantonese word readings for 字典. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- dictionary of Chinese characters; Han character dictionary (Classifier: 本; 部)
- (may be proscribed) General term for dictionaries.
- (computing) dictionary (an associative array; a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key)
- (computing) dictionary (a set of text strings such as passwords)
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